Walter Mondale

In July, President Obama stood on an outdoor stage before a crowd of 2,000 people at Los Angeles Trade Technical College. The president had just begun a new campaign-style speech when a man in the crowd, standing less than 50 feet away, interrupted with loud cries. "Antichrist!" the man yelled. "You'll be destroyed!" As the Secret Service moved in, Obama cracked a joke from the podium to keep things light. He had seen the man before, he said: "He needs to update his material." Less than an hour later, however, off stage and surrounded again by security and staff members, the president was no longer laughing. "That man would kill me," he...

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